a. If one is alcoholic, the disease of alcoholism progresses with any amount one drinks......... or no matter how often one drinks.
As they say "it's not how much you drink------or how often----it's WHETHER you drink at all".
b. alcoholics can be very clever at trying not to 'look like' they are alcoholic......many do not gulp their drinks if they think others are watching.......many drink a lot before they go out, so they can sip their drinks and make others think they hardly ever drink.
Of course, as the disease progresses, this hiding gets harder and harder to carry out.
c. So----how know if there is alcoholism?
1. read the 20 questions in the back of the "Getting Them Sober, volume one" book.......they are the 'industry standard' of evaluation.
2. when I directed a treatment center many years ago-----I was taught by a very smart person (who owned the center) how to find out if an alcoholic was really one (we evaluated court-sent persons to us).
We looked for two things--------one, did his family complain about his drinking? Almost NO ONE has this problem----unless he is alcoholic.
Two-----we asked if the person ever 'switched' to other drinks (the underlying purpose was to control his drinking). No one but alcoholics try to control their drinking---------- for, if one is not alcoholic-----one does not even drink enough to HAVE TO control it!
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